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Study of Blonde Hair

c. 1937-1938

Leon Kroll

Artist, American, 1884 - 1974

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Artwork overview

Medium

charcoal on prepared paperboard
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
Dimensions

board: 71.12 × 45.09 cm (28 × 17 3/4 in.)
Accession

2015.19.399

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1938

Drawings by Leon Kroll, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1938

Bibliography

1983

Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 180, no. 1220.

Inscriptions

lower right in charcoal: Leon Kroll

Wikidata ID

Q64592937

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